Vice President Candidate on primary ballot

[gam197]

If you vote for or write in a name of your choice which is allowed, what happens to that tally and what does it mean in general.

Do they count the votes and publish them?

 

[Alexius]

If you vote for or write in a name of your choice which is allowed, what happens to that tally and what does it mean in general.

Do they count the votes and publish them?

As long as the person is eligible, it would be counted. It would be written in the books, but it wouldn’t be announced to the public…

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius

 

[gam197]

originally posted by Alexius
As long as the person is eligible, it would be counted. It would be written in the books, but it wouldn’t be announced to the public…

It is not public information but would be written in what book? What is the point of having candidates names on the ballot or writing in a name?

 

[Alexius]

It is not public information but would be written in what book? What is the point of having candidates names on the ballot or writing in a name?

It’s funny

It would be in the official count. Don’t ask me where you can find that…

 

[vern_humphrey]

A primary is essentially an election within a political party. Each party makes its own rules about primaries – note how some states are being “penalized” for holding primaries earlier than usual.

I don’t know of any party in any state that provides for putting the Vice-Presidential candidates on the ballot. If you wrote in a Vice-Presidential choice, they might count your choice for President, or they might rule it a “spoiled ballot.”

Essentially, writing in a choice for Vice-President on the primary ballot would have the same effect as writing in a choice for American Idol – which is to say, none at all.

 

[gam197]

New Hampshire had three names of candidates for Vice President already on the ballot, two Democratic and one Republican each on their own ballot, and when asked, people were told that they could write in a candidate for Vice President.

If that makes it a “spoiled ballot” they certainly should have been informed. It must be a tradition or something in the state. The names for President were under one section and the names for Vice President were under another section.

 

[vern_humphrey]

New Hampshire had three names of candidates for Vice President already on the ballot, two Democratic and one Republican each on their own ballot, and when asked, people were told that they could write in a candidate for Vice President.

If that makes it a “spoiled ballot” they certainly should have been informed. It must be a tradition or something in the state. The names for President were under one section and the names for Vice President were under another section.

I won’t say you’re wrong, but that’s certainly weird, because the primary is a PARTY election – and neither party provides for voting for the Vice-Presidential candidate. Nor is the party nominee for President bound in any way when it comes to choosing his running mate.

 

[Al_Masetti]

The primaries are kind of weird because in some places you don’t need identification to vote. In some places, Republicans can vote in the Democrat primary and vice versa.

Very strange in some places.

 

[vern_humphrey]

The primaries are kind of weird because in some places you don’t need identification to vote. In some places, Republicans can vote in the Democrat primary and vice versa.

Very strange in some places.

The general elections are kind of weird because in some places you don’t need identification to vote. Dead people can vote in many areas.

 

[LRThunder]

I won’t say you’re wrong, but that’s certainly weird, because the primary is a PARTY election – and neither party provides for voting for the Vice-Presidential candidate. Nor is the party nominee for President bound in any way when it comes to choosing his running mate.

Initially, the runner-up of the Presidential election was Vice-President. That created an interesting situation when John Adams (Federalist) won in 1796 and a political rival (Thomas Jefferson) was elected Vice-President because he was runner up.

The primaries are kind of weird because in some places you don’t need identification to vote. In some places, Republicans can vote in the Democrat primary and vice versa.

Very strange in some places.

Those are open primaries.

 

[vern_humphrey]

Initially, the runner-up of the Presidential election was Vice-President. That created an interesting situation when John Adams (Federalist) won in 1796 and a political rival (Thomas Jefferson) was elected Vice-President because he was runner up.

Things got even shirtier a bit later. Jefferson and his vice-presidential choice, Aaron Burr, got exactly the same number of votes. Burr, seeing a chance to become President, hung in there, and nearly created a disaster, until one elector dropped his vote for Burr, and Jefferson won.

The result of that was the XII Amendment, which changed the way elections were run.

 

[Al_Masetti]

The general elections are kind of weird because in some places you don’t need identification to vote. Dead people can vote in many areas.

AND SOMETIMES THE DECEASED CAN VOTE MORE THAN ONCE!

Must be a form of “bilocation”… and I thought only Saint Dominic could do that.

Silly me!

 

[vern_humphrey]

AND SOMETIMES THE DECEASED CAN VOTE MORE THAN ONCE!

Must be a form of “bilocation”… and I thought only Saint Dominic could do that.

Silly me!

Two famous politicians from Arkansas were registering voters in a graveyard. One of them found the tombstone of a man named Smythe-Baldwick and said, “Here’s someone we can register twice!”

But her partner said, “No, Hil. That would be unethical.”

A little farther on, he found a tombstone that was too weathered to read, so he passed it by.

“Bill! Did you get that man’s name?”

“No, I can’t read it.”

“You get that man’s name. He has as much right to vote as anyone else in this graveyard!”

 

[Al_Masetti]

Initially, the runner-up of the Presidential election was Vice-President. That created an interesting situation when John Adams (Federalist) won in 1796 and a political rival (Thomas Jefferson) was elected Vice-President because he was runner up.

Those are open primaries.

There are “similar” situations in some states in which the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor are political rivals or don’t get along.

Any time the Governor leaves the state on business or vacation, the Lieutenant Governor takes over! And causes all kinds of mischief. So then the Governor has to race back to re-take charge of the state’s Executive branch. What a hoot.